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The No III Space Effects Squadron will be announced on Wednesday, with the defence secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that Britain needs to “keep pace in the new space race”. ... “Control of the waves was the essential ingredient in 19th-century deterrence,” he will tell the Space Power conference. “That is why Britain built the finest naval power in history. In the 20th century it was control of the skies, and so we…

The Space Force is planning to develop new prototype software designed to automate the integration of commercial and military space tracking data to provide more timely and more accurate information. Col. Barry Croker, who heads up the service’s Mission Delta 2, said Thursday that the plan is to launch the prototype “software environment” later this fall and to build a “minimum viable product” that can be up and…

🔥 PIR Center is pleased to announce the publication of its new report (in Russian), “ Missile Programs of the DPRK and the Republic of Korea: Transformation of Strategic Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula in the Second Quarter of the 21st Century ”, prepared by PIR Center Research Fellow Mr. Roman Kalinin . The report is published as part of the PIR Center Reports series (№ 53) and represents a comprehensive study…

My remarks from the arms control session of the Beijing Xiangshan forum.

DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $1.2 billion to produce Increment 2 of the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), further strengthening the nation's Arsenal of Freedom after a second flight test demonstrated the missile's ability to engage moving maritime targets.…

Is BRICS Becoming a Nuclear Minilateral? - MP-IDSA https://idsa.in/publisher/comments/is-brics-becoming-a-nuclear-minilateral

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A sounding rocket flight test is giving engineers at Sandia National Laboratories real-world reentry vibration data they can use to improve modeling and help drive nonnuclear component designs for the United States’ first new nuclear weapon under development in nearly 30 years. “The Atrax sounding rocket flight test is helping us improve credibility and confidence in our modeling and simulation tools in preparation…

Guetlein spelled out the first details of the program’s two-phase approach to delivering capabilities. The first phase, which he called Epic 1, will be delivered in 2028. Epic 2 will follow by 2035 with the full capabilities of the Golden Dome architecture. A key to delivering Epic 1 within the next 27 months is repackaging existing capabilities to defeat a decapitation strike or an attack by a rogue nation with a…